Aegiceras.| MYRSINES. 115 
Has.—Frequent in the littoral, especially the mangrove, forests all along 
- shores from BI iy down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. Feb,- 
arch.—S$S.=Sal, 
SAPOTACEAE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx 5- rarely 4-8-parted or 
-lobed, the lobes either in 2 or rarely 8 series, and the outer series 
ssy um 
fleshy or oily, or none, in the former case the po he flat and 
leafy, in the last thick and fleshy, the radicle inferior.—Trees or 
All the fourteen Burmese species are trees, some of which yield 
very valuable hard timber, like bullet-wood, The bark of some species 
of Achras is astringent and febrifugal. ‘The milky juice of 
several species of Jsonandra (especially I. Gutta) thickens into 
gutta-percha. The flowers of Bassia latifolia are largely eaten by 
the poor in India. Other, chiefly American, trees of this order 
furnish good dessert-fruits, like the sappodilla plum (Achras 
Sapota), the star-apple (Chrysophyllum cainito), the marmalade 
(Adchras mammosa), and others. 
* Calyz-lobes equal in number with the corolla-lobes. 
O Staminodes as many as stamens and alternating with 
m, 
— prone 3 ovary-cells 5-2 ; ee os - ¢«. . « Siderozyton. 
merous ; stamens 6 ; ovary-cells 12  . . : . Achras. 
Flo O O No staminodes. 
wers 5-8-merous, with as many stamens and ovary-cells . Chrysophyllum, 
: .O-merous; stamens twice as many as lobes, in a 
Single series ; ovary-cells as many as calyx-lobes . _« Lsonandra. 
Ca : mber, 
